Outstanding story and illustrations. Quite helpful. I like that the emotions each have a color. The story describes emotions and how they feel. It also asks when do you feel each specific emotion. At the end are four helpful breathing exercises. Definitely practice these with your young reader. Really a nice story. This is my honest review of this ARC. Highly recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley and Choeutte Publishing (CrackBoom! Books) for an advanced reader copy. The opinions expressed are mine alone.

Sunny Bunnies: My Book of Feelings is part of the Sunny Bunnies series and was written by Carine Laforest and illustrated by Animation Cafe. I was excited to read this new picture book to help little ones learn about their feelings. The idea is similar to Disney’s Inside Out where different colors represent different emotions. The illustrations throughout the book are quite colorful and fun. Each page describing an emotion is that one’s dedicated color. There is also a smaller illustration showing one or more of the bunnies actually experiencing the emotion. I liked this idea a lot but found it confusing that the bunny depicted experiencing the emotion was different than the emotion being described. The words used to describe the emotions seemed generally appropriate for young kids. While reading I did think that a few words were more advanced than I expected. But I guess that’s a good way to expand a child’s vocabulary. Another strength of the text is that besides saying what an emotion is, it describes how the child/person might physically feel. A kid friendly example of when someone might feel that emotion is also included. Finally, at the end of the book there are practical ways the reader can work on regulating their emotions.

A lovely, short guide to emotional literacy in a child-friendly format which will encourage conversations surrounding feelings, mood and self-awareness.

Our favourite part about this book, apart from the appealing, fluffy, rainbow-coloured illustrations designed to engage children from the outset, was the way it encourages a 'body-scan' for the emotion. An essential of building emotional resilience in our little ones is for them to be able to recognise how a certain mood might make us feel physically. Each emotional state is accompanied by interoceptive information to help them to do so.
Little captions underneath the bunnies give examples of context for the emotion too.

We would recommend this for children from 3-5 as an introduction to emotional vocabulary.

Thank you NetGalley and CrackBoom! Books for sending this eBook for review consideration. All opinions are our own.

A perfectly decent beginner’s guide to emotions, with a few lessons in breathing and moving them away from us, portrayed by some ultra-expressive critters, that are hard to actually recognise as rabbits now and again. That aside, and apart from the fact this clearly wants to be part of a franchise and not a stand-alone creation, this is wonderful.

Thank you to the author, publisher and Netgalley for allowing me to review this ARC with honesty.

My almost four year old loves Sunny Bunnies so when she saw we we're going to be reading about them, she got extremely excited. This ranges through all the emotions by explaining what you may feel and how to work with them. I'm not sure on age range but some of it went over her head a bit so I had to interpret it for her but overall it was a cute story about each Sunny Bunny dealing with an emotion or two along with tips on how to deal with each positive and negative one.

I read this book with my 8 year old daughter and we really enjoyed it. There were some good talking points that encouraged us to share times where we felt different emotions. This book describes various different emotions in an excellent, child-friendly way with some lovely illustrations. This would be a great addition to any Early Years setting with numerous learning opportunities leading from it.

This books is really cute. The illustrations are great and I really like how the explanations of each feeling are easy for children to understand. I think Sunny Bunnies is a wonderful way to introduce feelings to your child.

I had so much fun reading this book, the story is so adorable and the illustrations were so well done and charming, there’s so many little details in every page that I couldn’t stop but be mesmerized by it all. I will definitely be recommending it! Thank you netgalley and the publisher for this early copy

I read this with my 5 year old son. He really enjoyed it. It's really helped him understand his emotions.

This is a lovely book that I will read with my 5 year old Grandson. The characters each represent feeling and the stories help children how to deal with their emotions. The breathing exercises at the end should be fun while they are learning. I would highly recommend this.

Helping children learn about and how to navigate their emotions and mood is so, so important. This book would be perfect for my mom to use in her kindergarten classes and for some of my nieces and nephews. It’s easy to understand and is still fun for the intended age group

This is a very attractive book from the onset and I could see children being enthralled by the colors and creatures depicted in the illustrations. Like others, I wonder if the copy could be made more appropriate for the very young audience this seems geared towards. Looking at the publication info, I wonder if this was perhaps written in French and translated?

Walking through different emotions and then adding a section on managing them is a nice strategy. I was a little surprised by the "soothe your sadness" part that suggested twisting your arms and imagining your sadness "floating away." Still, it was a very sweet book. Not really a story, though.

The sunny bunnies is a great book for little kids. Not only did it explain the emotion, give an example of the characters feeling that emotion, it also gives coping techniques to help children when they feel the emotion.
Great layout and clear illustrations too.

Sunny Bunnies: My Book of Feelings is a wonderful book addressing emotions.
Each page is clearly set out with a different feeling, such as calm, anger, fear, love etc.
Each emotion is clearly stated and colour coded. The feelings you may have when experiencing this emotion are well described. At the bottom of each page is a question, asking about a time you have felt that way. This encourages a discussion about how we react when we feel that way and times when we may have felt that emotion in real life.
There is also a little example of the characters in the book experiencing the emotion being described.

At the end of the book there are techniques to deal with different emotions. This is a wonderful idea and allows children to learn ways to express themselves and work through the emotions they are feeling in a controlled manner.

The book is cleverly written, well laid out and informative. The book is colourful and bright, captivating the young reader and the characters throughout are very cute, bringing the pages to life.

I would recommend this book to children aged between 3-8.

Sunny Bunnies: My Book of Feelings by Carine Laforest (illustrations by Animation Cafe) is a great little book for pre-schoolers and lower elementary students. This book would be an asset in any classroom, and useful for school counselors to use when little ones can't name their feelings. I especially liked the four physical exercises at the end for kids to try. I look forward to recommending this book to our school libraries, elementary teachers, and guidance staff.

This is a lovely book to help young children understand how their emotions change the way they feel inside. Bold and colourful with limited text means it’s not overwhelming
Would be lovely in an early years setting

I am really happy to read this book and will definitely recommend it to Elementary Montessori level. Colours are used to describe feelings and emotions, in this way initially students can regulate their emotions successfully.

Adults and teachers have to read this book for students initially then they can do pictorial reading and by the time they will reach to standard 1, they will be able to read the familiar words themselves.

Cover page is very attractive and activities at the end will help learners to be emotionally strong. Bravo for the great efforts by an author.

We watch Sunny Bunnies in this house and when I saw the book I knew I needed to read it to my children. I usually test out the books on them before bringing it into the office for the group children. This is one that I will definitely recommend to the parents and program creator for use. We handle a lot of emotional disregulation, so this could help the children understand emotions better.

My son was able to interact and follow along with this book. He loved being able to answer the questions about what makes him feel each emotion. He stayed engaged the entire time which is a huge positive.

The book overall was cute, engaging and colorful and keeps the children's attention which is exactly what I need for my program.

Update: my 5yr old has asked to read this every day since I showed it to him

This was a very colorful and interactive book for kids to enjoy and learn about emotions. The illustrations are very cute and I think a lot of kids will enjoy this book. It's both fun and practical and would make explaining these things to kids a lot easier if you aren't sure where to start. This would probably be suitable for kindergarten/1st grade age range.

I tried to read this with my son, who is two, but it didn't really hold his interest which is rare. In the absence of any feedback from here, here is some feedback of my own. This felt quite academic for young children, well certainly my little one gets bored without a story and I think this was why he didn't stay long. I felt the colours and the characters were a bit confusing - the characters didn't have the same colour as the colour attributed to the emotion. It's a great idea but didn't work for my sons age.